-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- BlackBerry customers slammed by last week 's global outage are being offered free apps , not cash , as payback for their troubles .

At least a dozen apps , which would cost about $ 100 on the BlackBerry App World site , will be made available in the next few weeks , according to a statement released Monday by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion .

`` We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers , '' RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in the statement . `` We 've worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years , and we 're committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect , today and in the future . ''

An October 10 failure at a data center caused outages in Europe and elsewhere , RIm said . RIM throttled service to help address the outage , which spread over the next few days to Europe , the Middle East , India , Africa , Latin America and North America . Full service was restored on Thursday , according to the company .

The free apps include :

* SIMS 3

* Bejeweled

* N.O.V.A.

* Texas Hold 'em Poker 2

* Bubble Bash 2

* Photo Editor Ultimate - Ice Cold Apps

* DriveSafe.ly Pro

* Drive Safe.ly Enterprise

* Nobex Radioâ „ cents Premium

* Shazam Encore

* Vlingo Plus : Virtual Assistant

More apps will be added later , according to the statement . The first ones will become available on Wednesday and they 'll stay free for the rest of the year .

Business customers also will be offered a free month of technical support .

The offer seemed to please at least some of BlackBerry 's roughly 70 million customers .

`` Only 1 simple word for this ... AMAZING !!! '' wrote one visitor to a post on the BlackBery fan site , Crackberry . `` I was n't expecting this at all , but it is welcome . ''

`` Trust restored RIM ! ... , '' wrote another . `` This also tells you RIM is very , very serious with surviving . No giving up for them . ''

But response was more measured among less-enthusiastic customers .

`` What a useless ` compensation ' , '' wrote one commenter on the website for London 's Guardian newspaper . `` What -LSB- if -RSB- somebody uses their device for communications -LRB- e.g. e-mail -RRB- rather than using loads of apps ? The value in apps is totally worthless . ''

Many had been hoping to at least be reimbursed for the amount of time their service was out .

By comparison , after Sony 's PlayStation Network went down this spring , the company offered players free games , a weekend of free video rentals and a free month of PlayStation Plus , a premium subscription service offering exclusive titles , discounts and other perks . That PlayStation outage lasted the better part of a month for some customers .

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BlackBerry users being offered free apps after worldwide outage

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No cash back or service credit is being offered so far

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Some BlackBerry users saw outages between Monday and Thursday of last week

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More than $ 100 in apps will be available between Wednesday and end of the year